If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher? — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
